Deeply concerned over Indian issues, Clark appealed to the federal government on many occasions to behave justly and humanely toward Native Americans. Unfortunately, these appeals were rarely, if ever, granted. Clark died on September 1, , in St. The expedition progressed well under the co-leadership of the two men.
There had been a slight mix-up on the part of the bureaucracy, which had assigned Clark a rank lower to Lewis's, as this was ostensibly a military-sponsored expedition.
Lewis regarded the commission as nothing more than a mistake and treated Clark as an equal throughout the expedition. The captains took separate routes back east after reaching the Pacific. Lewis took a portion of the men and traveled over the land north of the Mississippi river, while Clark and the remaining men navigated the Yellowstone river to the Missouri river. The captains reunited again closer to St. Louis, and the Corps of Discovery entered St.
Louis as one large party on September 23, After the expedition, Clark returned to his family home in Louisville, before traveling to Virginia in hopes of wooing Julia Hancock, which he did successfully.
Clark was named Brigadier General of the Louisiana militia, to compliment Lewis's governorship of the same territory. He married Julia Hancock in January After Lewis's death in , the responsibility of organizing, editing, and publishing the journals and scientific discoveries from the expedition fell to Clark. After much persuasion, he convinced Nicholas Biddle to undertake the task, as he felt his own grammar skills were insufficient to publish a book.
He continued in his military capacity as well as more or less facilitating the publication of the book, which finally came out in Lewis's death also left a vacancy in the governorship of Louisiana. Without hesitation the Virginian picked his old Army buddy William Clark. When the Army failed to give Clark the promotion he deserved, Lewis ignored the "brass" and addressed Clark as captain, treating him as a virtual co-commander of the expedition. It was Clark who led the fleet of boats upriver on May 14, , while Lewis was detained in St.
Louis by diplomatic and administrative matters. The two officers led their men up the Missouri to the Mandan Indian country of North Dakota, where they wintered before continuing in the spring of With great difficulty they shifted from canoes to horses and back to canoes as they crossed the unknown Rockies and followed the Columbia River to the sea. Clark was sharing leadership with Lewis in one of the most successful partnerships in the history of the nation.
An experienced soldier and outdoorsman, Clark helped keep the expedition moving. He was also an excellent mapmaker and helped to figure what routes the expedition should take. The trip was not without hazards.
Clark helped lead the expedition through treacherous terrain and hostile weather, encountering many Indigenous peoples along the way. While spending their first winter near a native Mandan village, they invited Sacagawea , a Shoshone Indian, and her husband Toussaint Charbonneau, a French Canadian trader, to join the expedition as interpreters.
During the journey, Sacagawea gave birth to a child named Jean Baptiste in February The child was later nicknamed "Little Pomp" or "Pomp" by Clark. The expedition made it to the present-day Oregon coast in November They built a fort they named Fort Clatsop and waited out the winter there. In March , the expedition prepared to make the journey back to St.
In early July, Lewis and Clark decided to divide into two groups to see more of the area. Clark took a group with him to explore the Yellowstone River.
During this part of the journey, he named a rock formation after Sacagawea's son, calling it Pompy's Tower. The formation stands near what is now Billings, Montana, and bears the only physical trace of the entire expedition's path — "W Clark July 25 " carved on its surface.
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